Abstract: A cloth winding machine has a winding shaft supported in ball bearings at the end of plural support braces positioned in different directions to reduce vibration of the winding shaft and increase its stability while winding at relatively high speeds non-symmetrical packages such as flat bolts of cloth. A cloth measuring wheel shaft encoder is connected through an electronic counter to an inverter motor control system for driving an AC electric motor so that electronic counting and motor control improves measured accuracy of the cloth segments wound onto each package, even at higher speeds. In the package mounting arrangement, the winding shaft is held in a fixed axial position and an extended shaft segment is provided with integral keyways which receive keys.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for the lineal measurement of continuous or stranded materials, such as cloth, otherwise transported past such apparatus. A gravity operated contact wheel is used to bias the materials into engagement with a measuring wheel, the rotation of which generates incremental distance pulses which are summed in a counter. An electric eye is used to detect the presence of materials to be measured so that a measurement count is held as a trailing edge of such materials departs from between the measuring roll and contact roll. The entire device may be supported on a support base which is in turn adapted to fit into a preformed opening or slot in the top surface of a work area such as a cloth cutting table. In such instance, the measuring device operates to measure cloth drawn across the table and in between the measuring and contact rolls.